Three Interactive "Selfies"

1. Students will apply their knowledge of photographic composition principles to create a "professional selfie" that they will enhance with brand-reflective interactivity in ThingLink. They will embed this interactive image in a blog post.

2. Then... they will take a 360-3D selfie using a "spherical camera" and upload it to ThingLink (as a 360 image.) They will add interactivity in the program and embed this new 360 selfie in a separate blog post and add their observations and reflections on such questions as:

• Which photographic principles were helpful?
• Which 2D photographic principles no longer apply?
• What are some specific principles you would suggest for taking 360 photos?
• What did you like about your 360 selfie?
• What will you do differently when you re-shoot your selfie?

3. But wait - there's more: Students will use the "Google Earth" app to take a 360 image without you in it - think of it as a sort of Portrait Unbound" but in VR! Follow some simple instructions to accomplish this here. Upload this image to ThingLink as a 360 image and add a few enhancements. Embed this image in a third blog with attention to the same questions as above.

Welcome Back to your world of Interactive Graphics!

 First - check out the interactive maps from your colleagues! 
**(IF YOU GET A 404 - MAKE YOUR MAP PUBLIC!)

• Avery 
• Kacie
• John
• Jenna
• Bambi
• Madi
• Cory

Review and discuss your use of this tool, and the composition decisions made, as well as the choices of potential enhancements. 

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Second - prepare to shoot a staged "selfie" somewhere on campus - in a room, outside a building, in a hall, etc. that can contain enough interesting things to make an interactive map that reflects yoru personality, brand, and experiences.

Begin this process with a review of the Principles of Photography you discovered last term. (Find your blog post on new photos and notes from our videos.) Contribute to a GOOGLE DOC of Photography Principles HERE.

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Third - Ask AI to help you brainstorm other principles that apply specifically to taking selfies.

POST A BLOG ENTRY on this experiment!

Use a prompt similar to this one: "Please provide me with some basic photography principles that apply to taking quality selfies for use on a professional website."

Use these "Big 3" AI Platforms for input:

• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Copilot 

Post your thoughts on using these AI tools in a blog entry. Were they helpful? How so? Which did you prefer? Why? Did they give you new information? Was the information correct? Where did the info come from? How did you judge the AI-generated information? etc. Are there principles you can add to the Google doc list to help us take better selfies?